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The Sword Dance by David Cunliffe, 1853, depicting men of the 42nd Regiment of Foot (Black Watch) and 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) The Sword dance is one of the best known of all Highland dances, an ancient dance of war. Performance of sword dances in the folklore of Scotland is recorded from as early as the 15th century. [1] [2] [3]
The Highland dirk dance, in which the dancer flourishes the weapon, is often linked to the sword dance or dances called mac an fhorsair, (literally, 'the son of the forester'), the "broadsword exercise" or the bruicheath ('battle-dance'). They are mentioned in a number of sources, usually military, and may have been performed in a variety of ...
When the dance began to be incorporated into Highland Dance competitions, which were usually played for by pipers, the tune was changed to "Whistle O'er the Lave o't", which could be played on the bagpipe and is the tune commonly used for the dance today. [6]
A Bedouin woman performing a sword dance, c. 1910. Arab sword dances (raqs al-saïf) evolved out of sword fighting between men, in both Egypt and Turkey. There was even a time when sword dancing was banned by the sultan during Ottoman rule, as it was believed that dancers, who took swords from soldiers and pretended to "kill" them at the end of ...
Treatise on the New Sword Exercise, for Cavalry – Sholto Sorlie (1797) [12] [17] The Art of Defence on Foot with Broad Sword and Sabre, by C. Roworth (1798) [18] [19] The Guards of the Highland Broadsword – Henry Angelo, art by Thomas Rowlandson (20 January 1799) [20] Hungarian & Highland Broadsword – by Henry Angelo and Son (12 February ...
The Highland Dirk Dance, resembles a combative dance similar to those of Indonesian pencak silat, which has the performer executing knife techniques combined with wrestling style kicks, trips, and sweeps. [4] Boxing Day 2016 – The Grenoside Sword Dance Captain holds aloft the sword lock before placing it around his neck
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It has become the national ballroom dance form of Scotland, partly because "Caledonian Country Dances" became popular in upper-class London society in the decades after the Jacobite rising of 1745. [1] As early as 1724 there was a published collection of Scottish dance tunes by John and William Neal "A collection of the Most celebrated Scotch ...